With our population being past seven billion, the cold hard truth is one single person can have an extremely difficult time causing any sort of dent in our society. Many popular books that we know off the top of our heads such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling are the top goals of many young and adult authors. But, many people don’t know that many of these books that are “making it big” are ridiculously lucky.
Many times when publishing a book, authors have to submit and make revisions multiple times. Our beloved Harry Potter series had to go through many rejections before getting into print. J.K. Rowling got rejected by twelve companies before her book got excepted for publishing. To be an author, persistence, skill, and luck are needed more than anything.
Many publishing companies will turn someone down if they have any mistakes and/or “uninteresting” content. Even the process to get a book out to publishing companies can be rigorous and challenging. Most editing companies reject 99.5% of everything they see, which can seem scary to many aspiring authors.
If looking at more broad statistics, about 65,000 books are published every year. About two thirds of them are textbooks or professional books, leaving only about 12,000 left for other authors to publish. Only a few of these 12,000 can “make it big”. So, becoming an author requires knowledge, stubbornness, and pure luck. All authors should take this into consideration and make sure they are ready for the commitment.
Sources:
Dietrich, William. "The Writer's Odds Of Success". The Huffington Post, 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-dietrich/the-writers-odds-of-succe_b_2806611.html.
Emmett, Rita. "Rita Emmett - What Are The Odds Of Getting Published?". Ritaemmett.Com, 2017, http://www.ritaemmett.com/articles/what-are-the-odds.htm.
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